The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, the first major national and international museum retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). Premiering at SFMOMA from April 5 through September 2, 2025, this first posthumous retrospective will feature the entire spectrum of the artist’s awe-inspiring practice. Sculpture, drawings, prints, paintings, design objects and archival material from U.S.-based public and private collections will offer an in-depth look at her expansive output and its inspirations, exploring the ways her longtime San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter of her creative universe, and highlighting the ethos of collaboration and inclusivity that informed her numerous public…

The Museo Novecento in Florence presents “Un passo avanti tanti dietro” (One Step Forward, Many Back), the largest retrospective in Italy dedicated to Marion Baruch, a cosmopolitan artist and tireless experimenter. The exhibition, curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli, will be open from March 15 to June 8, 2025, and extends to the spaces of the Manifattura Tabacchi and Polimoda, organizations that have actively collaborated in the realization of the project. The exhibition offers an in-depth overview of the artist’s research and journey, highlighting the consistency and versatility of her work. A fervent advocate for an authorship free from constraints, throughout her long career, Baruch has effortlessly explored different…

The Prato-based artist Chiara Bettazzi inaugurates the new exhibition season at Lottozero in Prato, Italy, with the exhibition Panneggi, a project that marks the beginning of a cycle dedicated to Soft Sculpture, the central theme of the center’s 2025-2026 program in art, design, and textile culture. Curated by Alessandra Tempesti, Panneggi presents a series of previously unseen photographs taken between 2022 and 2025, in which fabric becomes the central element. Bettazzi’s work moves beyond the realm of still life to approach the tableau vivant, establishing a refined dialogue between painting and sculpture. Fabric, once a mere scenographic element in her previous installations and sculptural compositions, now becomes an autonomous material,…

Exquisite artworks created worldwide over the last two thousand years will be on view in “Intrinsic Beauty: Celebrating the Art of Textiles” at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, February 22 through June 14, 2025, as The Textile Museum — a leader in the study and appreciation of textiles—begins celebrations for its centennial year.  “Each of 60 spectacular works in this exhibition selected from our collections of more than 25,000 textiles exemplifies the ‘intrinsic beauty of design, color, and technique’ so prized by The Textile Museum’s founder George Hewitt Myers,” said John Wetenhall, director, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. “They set the stage for our next century…

The Monumental Installation Is the Artist’s First Solo Presentation in New York, at The Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium Currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art – MoMA – in New York, is Otobong Nkanga: Cadence, a site-specific exhibition by Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974). The large-scale installation, on view through July 27, 2025, presents an all-encompassing environment of sculpture, sound, and text that addresses the rhythms of both ecological life cycles and social upheaval. Central to the commission is a monumental tapestry that is suspended along the highest wall of the Atrium. Hanging sculptures composed of dyed ropes, interwoven with hand-blown glass and ceramic forms,…

Studio Vanna Casati presents Strange Foreign Bodies, a solo exhibition by Camilla Marinoni, a Bergamo-based artist born in 1979, showcasing a series of sculptures developed through her most recent research on the theme of the body. Following a residency at GlogauAIR – artists in residence in Berlin, Marinoni offers works that no longer portray the body as a mere collection of anatomical elements, but as a threshold between individual identity and the external world. Skin, tissues, and bodily functions become metaphors for the fragility of existence, the vulnerability of trauma, and the presence of illness. The sculptures, marked by a restless, almost pulsating vitality, suggest visceral forms with protrusions and…

The solo exhibition Madonna dei Femminellə by John Paul Morabito, curated by Sarah Hume, is on view at the Kent State University Museum (515 Hilltop Dr), Ohio, United States, until June 22, 2025. The works included in this exhibition belong to the Magnificat series, in which the artist explores their identity as both a queer person and a Catholic Italian American. Morabito reinterprets the works of Italian Old Masters, transforming their paintings into refined tapestries woven on a digital Jacquard loom. In this reimagining, they incorporate glass beads—elements that evoke both the splendor of Catholicism and the aesthetics of camp. By choosing textiles as their medium, Morabito reflects on the…